On 2015-03-19 12:42 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
On 19/03/15 07:00, Daniel Friesen wrote:
On 2015-03-18 11:31 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
Yes, Wikitext conversations did have a threading pattern.
From what I can see looking at a long discussion on a random FA
talkpage
archive it goes like this:
Users indent after each message.
Then when it gets too deep someone starts their message with 0
indentation.
Conversations with larger messages end up reset quicker.
Unfortunately this model cannot be applied to LQT or Flow.
Um... LQT has exactly that model. Yes, you can keep going, but you can
keep going in wikitext, too, even off the side of the page (which is
exactly what uncyclopedians do sometimes precisely because they want
to go off the side of the page because they think it's funny, because
let's face it, it is funny), but normally you just start a new
conversation/thread/topic/whatever you want to call it if it goes too
far.
Can you point me to a LQT discussion that people have used that way?
In all the LQT discussions I remember being in people just replied to
the comment they were replying to.
No one seemed to go and reply to a post higher up just to break indentation.
And if things go to far you can't nautrally fork a LQT/Flow discussion
the way you do in a WikiText page. If you did that the people you're
talking to wouldn't be notified.
but normally you just start a new
conversation/thread/topic/whatever
you want to call it if it goes too far.
Actually this part sounds like the best
solution to the 8-levels deep
issue. Any discussion that deep should probably be forked.
Perhaps the Flow interface needs high level support for something like
that. Something like how Discourse lets you fork a message into a new
topic and displays an interface bit that links to the new topic.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://danielfriesen.name/]